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{{Short description|Concept in international relations}}
{{For|the 17th-century British protectorate|The Protectorate}}
{{Distinguish|Protecting power}}
{{Forms of government|Power structure}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}

A '''protectorate''', in the context of international relations, is a [[State (polity)|state]] that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.{{sfnp|Hoffmann, Protectorates|1987|p=336}} It is a [[dependent territory]] that enjoys [[autonomy]] over most of its internal affairs, while still recognizing the [[suzerainty]] of a more powerful [[sovereign state]] without being a possession.<ref name=cyprus>{{cite journal |last=Fuess |first=Albrecht |title=Was Cyprus a Mamluk protectorate? Mamluk policies toward Cyprus between 1426 and 1517 |journal=Journal of Cyprus Studies |date=1 January 2005 |volume=11 |issue=28–29 |pages=11–29 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA144051591&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=13032925&p=AONE&sw=w|issn=1303-2925|access-date=24 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=reflection>{{cite journal |last=Reisman |first=W. |title=Reflections on State Responsibility for Violations of Explicit Protectorate, Mandate, and Trusteeship Obligations |journal=Michigan Journal of International Law |date=1 January 1989 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=231–240 |url=https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol10/iss1/21/ |access-date=24 October 2020 |issn=1052-2867}}</ref><ref name=boijkov>{{cite journal |last=Bojkov |first=Victor D. |title=Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-1995 political system and its functioning |journal=Southeast European Politics 4.1 |pages=41–67 |url=https://homepage.univie.ac.at/vedran.dzihic/bojkov_2003.pdf}}</ref> In exchange, the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations depending on the terms of their arrangement.<ref name=boijkov/> Usually protectorates are established [[de jure]] by a [[treaty]].<ref name=cyprus/><ref name=reflection/> Under certain conditions—as with [[History of Egypt under the British#Veiled Protectorate (1882–1913)|Egypt under British rule]] (1882–1914)—a state can also be labelled as a '''de facto protectorate''' or a '''veiled protectorate'''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Leys |first=Colin |title=The British ruling class |journal=Socialist Register |date=2014 |volume=50 |url=https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/20194 |access-date=23 October 2020 |language=en |issn=0081-0606}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Kirkwood |first=Patrick M. |title="Lord Cromer's Shadow": Political Anglo-Saxonism and the Egyptian Protectorate as a Model in the American Philippines |journal=Journal of World History |date=21 July 2016 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=1–26 |doi=10.1353/jwh.2016.0085 |s2cid=148316956 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/625981/summary |access-date=23 October 2020 |language=en |issn=1527-8050|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rubenson |first1=Sven |title=Professor Giglio, Antonelli and Article XVII of the Treaty of Wichale |journal=The Journal of African History |date=1966 |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=445–457 |doi=10.1017/S0021853700006526 |jstor=180113 |s2cid=162713931 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/180113 |access-date=24 October 2020 |issn=0021-8537|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

A protectorate is different from a [[colony]] as it has local rulers, is not directly possessed, and rarely experiences [[colonization]] by the suzerain state.<ref>{{cite book |last=Archer |first=Francis Bisset |title=The Gambia Colony and Protectorate: An Official Handbook |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-7146-1139-6 | date=1967|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wk6o1XniPsQC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Johnston |first1=Alex. |title=The Colonization of British East Africa |journal=Journal of the Royal African Society |date=1905 |volume=5 |issue=17 |pages=28–37 |jstor=715150 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/715150 |access-date=24 October 2020 |issn=0368-4016}}</ref> A state that is under the protection of another state while retaining its "international personality" is called a "protected state", not a protectorate.{{sfnp|Meijknecht, Towards International Personality|2001|p=42}}{{efn|name=informal}}

==History==
Protectorates are one of the oldest features of international relations, dating back to the [[Roman Empire]]. ''Civitates foederatae'' were cities that were subordinate to Rome for their foreign relations. In the [[Middle Ages]], [[Andorra]] was a protectorate of [[France]] and [[Spain]]. Modern protectorate concepts were devised in the nineteenth century.{{sfnp|Willigen, Peacebuilding and International Administration|2013|p=16}}

==Typology==
===Foreign relations===
In practice, a protectorate often has direct [[diplomacy|foreign relations]] only with the protector state, and transfers the management of all its more important international affairs to the latter.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Yoon |first=Jong-pil |title=Establishing expansion as a legal right: an analysis of French colonial discourse surrounding protectorate treaties |journal=History of European Ideas |date=17 August 2020 |volume=46 |issue=6 |pages=811–826 |doi=10.1080/01916599.2020.1722725 |s2cid=214425740 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01916599.2020.1722725 |access-date=24 October 2020 |issn=0191-6599|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=boijkov/><ref name=cyprus/><ref name=reflection/> Similarly, the protectorate rarely takes military action on its own but relies on the protector for its defence. This is distinct from [[annexation]], in that the protector has no formal power to control the internal affairs of the protectorate.

Protectorates differ from [[League of Nations mandate]]s and their successors, [[United Nations trust territories]], whose administration is supervised, in varying degrees, by the [[international community]]. A protectorate formally enters into the protection through a bilateral agreement with the protector, while international mandates are stewarded by the world community-representing body, with or without a {{Lang|la|de facto}} administering power.

===Protected state===
{{See also|List of sovereign states without armed forces}}

A protected state has a form of protection where it continues to retain an "international personality" and enjoys an agreed amount of independence in conducting its foreign policy.{{sfnp|Meijknecht, Towards International Personality|2001|p=42}}<ref> {{harvp|Willigen, Peacebuilding and International Administration|2013|p=16}}: "First, protected states are entities which still have substantial authority in their internal affairs, retain some control over their foreign policy, and establish their relation to the protecting state on a treaty or another legal instrument. Protected states still have qualifications of statehood."
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For political and pragmatic reasons, the protection relationship is not usually advertised, but described with euphemisms such as "an independent state with special treaty relations" with the protecting state.{{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=50}} A protected state appears on world maps just as any other independent state.{{efn|name=informal|''Protected state'' in this technical sense is distinguished from the informal usage of "protected state" to refer to a state receiving protection.}}

International administration of a state can also be regarded as an internationalized form of protection, where the protector is an international organisation rather than a state.{{sfnp|Willigen, Peacebuilding and International Administration|2013|pp=16–17}}

===Colonial protection===
Multiple regions—such as the [[Colonial Nigeria|Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria]], the [[History of Lagos|Colony and Protectorate of Lagos]], and similar—were subjects of colonial protection.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Onah |first=Emmanuel Ikechi |title=Nigeria: A Country Profile |journal=Journal of International Studies |date=9 January 2020 |volume=10 |pages=151–162 |doi=10.32890/jis.10.2014.7954 |s2cid=226175755 |url=http://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/jis/article/view/7954 |access-date=21 September 2021 |language=en |issn=2289-666X|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Moloney |first=Alfred |title=Notes on Yoruba and the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, West Africa |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography |date=1890 |volume=12 |issue=10 |pages=596–614 |doi=10.2307/1801424 |jstor=1801424 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1801424 |access-date=21 September 2021 |issn=0266-626X}}</ref> Conditions of protection are generally much less generous for areas of colonial protection. The protectorate was often reduced to a {{Lang|la|[[de facto]]}} condition similar to a colony, but with the pre-existing native state continuing as the agent of [[indirect rule]]. Occasionally, a protectorate was established by another form of indirect rule: a [[chartered company]], which becomes a {{Lang|la|de facto}} state in its European home state (but geographically overseas), allowed to be an independent country with its own foreign policy and generally its own armed forces.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

In fact, protectorates were often declared despite no agreement being duly entered into by the state supposedly being protected, or only agreed to by a party of dubious authority in those states. Colonial protectors frequently decided to reshuffle several protectorates into a new, artificial unit without consulting the protectorates, without being mindful of the theoretical duty of a protector to help maintain a protectorate's status and integrity. The [[Berlin Conference (1884)|Berlin agreement]] of February 26, 1885, allowed European colonial powers to establish protectorates in [[Sub-Saharan Africa|Black Africa]] (the last region to be divided among them) by diplomatic notification, even without actual possession on the ground. This aspect of history is referred to as the [[Scramble for Africa]]. A similar case is the formal use of such terms as ''colony'' and ''protectorate'' for an amalgamation—convenient only for the colonizer or protector—of adjacent territories, over which it held ({{Lang|la|de facto}}) sway by protective or "raw" colonial power.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

===Amical protection===
In amical protection—as of [[United States of the Ionian Islands]] by Britain—the terms are often very favourable for the protectorate.<ref name="Wick2016">{{citation |last=Wick |first=Alexis |title=The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haowDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |year=2016 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-28592-7 |pages=133–}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Αλιβιζάτου |first1=Αικατερίνη |title=Use of GIS in analyzing archaeological sites: the case study of Mycenaean Cephalonia, Greece |url=https://amitos.library.uop.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/5063 |date=12 March 2019 |website=[[University of Peloponnese]] |language=en |access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref> The political interest of the protector is frequently moral (a matter of accepted moral obligation, prestige, ideology, internal popularity, or [[Dynasty|dynastic]], historical, or ethnocultural ties). Also, the protector's interest is in countering a rival or enemy power—such as preventing the rival from obtaining or maintaining control of areas of strategic importance. This may involve a very weak protectorate surrendering control of its external relations but may not constitute any real sacrifice, as the protectorate may not have been able to have a similar use of them without the protector's strength.

Amical protection was frequently extended by the [[great powers]] to other Christian (generally European) states, and to states of no significant importance.{{ambiguous|date=November 2011}} After 1815, non-Christian states (such as the [[#Chinese|Chinese Qing dynasty]]) also provided amical protection of other, much weaker states.

In modern times, a form of amical protection can be seen as an important or defining feature of [[microstates]]. According to the definition proposed by Dumienski (2014): "microstates are modern protected states, i.e. sovereign states that have been able to unilaterally depute certain attributes of sovereignty to larger powers in exchange for benign protection of their political and economic viability against their geographic or demographic constraints".<ref>{{cite report |last=Dumieński |first=Zbigniew |title=Microstates as Modern Protected States: Towards a New Definition of Micro-Statehood |url=http://ams.hi.is/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Microstates_OccasionalPaper.pdf |date=2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714195156/https://ams.hi.is/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Microstates_OccasionalPaper.pdf |publisher=Centre for Small State Studies |series=Occasional Paper |archive-date=14 July 2014 |access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref>

==Argentina's protectorates==
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Artigas 1815.svg}} [[Liga Federal]] (1815–1820)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Chile.svg}} [[Chile]] (1817–1818)
* {{flagicon image|Bandera de la Provincia de Tucumán.svg}} [[Republic of Tucumán]] (1820–1821)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Peru (1821–1822).svg}} [[Protectorate of Peru|Peru]] (1820–1822)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Uruguay (Oribe).svg}} [[Gobierno del Cerrito]] (1843–1851)
* {{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[Paraguay]] (1876)

==Brazil's protectorates==
* {{flagicon|Republic of Acre}} [[Republic of Acre]] (1899–1903)
* [[Paraguayan War|Paraguay]] (1869–1876)
* [[Preliminary Peace Convention (1828)|Uruguay]] (1828–1835)
==British Empire's protectorates and protected states==
{{Main|British protectorate}}

===Americas===
* {{flag icon|Mosquito Coast}} [[Mosquito Coast|Mosquitia]] (1638–1860; over Central America's [[Miskito people|Miskito]] Indian nation)

===Europe===
* {{flagicon|UK|variant=}} {{flagicon|Two Sicilies|variant=1815}} [[Malta Protectorate]] (1800–1813); {{flagicon|Malta|variant=1814}} [[Crown Colony of Malta]] proclaimed in 1813 (de jure part of the [[Kingdom of Sicily]] but under British protection)
* [[File:Flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands.svg|24px]] [[United States of the Ionian Islands|Ionian islands]] (1815–1864; a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[state (polity)|state]] and amical protectorate of Great Britain between 1815 and 1864)
* [[File:Flag of Cyprus (1881-1922).svg|24px]] [[British Cyprus]] (1878–1914; put under British military administration (1914–22) then proclaimed a Crown Colony (1922–60))

===South Asia===
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|size=24px}} [[Cis-Sutlej states]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Cunningham|first=Joseph Davy|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofsikhsfr01cunn|title=A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej|publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]]|year=1849}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author-last=Meyer|first=William Stevenson|title=The Imperial Gazetteer of India|year=1908|volume=XII|page=90|chapter=Ferozepur district|quote=But the British Government, established at Delhi since 1803, intervened with an offer of protection to all the CIS-SUTLEJ STATES; and Dhanna Singh gladly availed himself of the promised aid, being one of the first chieftains to accept British protection and control.|author-link=William Stevenson Meyer|chapter-url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_096.gif}}</ref> (1809–1862)
* {{flag|Kingdom of Nepal}} (1816–1923; protected state){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=50}}
* {{flag|Kingdom of Sikkim}} (1861–1947), (1947–1972)<ref>{{citation|last=Mullard|first=Saul|title=Opening the Hidden Land: State Formation and the Construction of Sikkimese History|date=2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_1J4tgrYDUC&pg=PA184|page=184|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-20895-7}}</ref>
* [[File:Flag of the Maldives 1953.svg|24x24px]] [[Maldives]] (1776–1965, 1965–1968, 1968–1990)<ref name="mi">{{cite web|title=Timeline – Story of Independence|url=https://maldivesindependent.com/politics/timeline-story-of-independence-115638|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727112628/https://maldivesindependent.com/politics/timeline-story-of-independence-115638|archive-date=2019-07-27|access-date=2020-05-11}}</ref>
* Various [[British Raj]] [[princely state]]s (1845–1947)
* {{flag|Bhutan|1949}} (1906–1947 and 1948; protected state){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009 |p=50}}

===West and Central Asia===
* {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Persian Gulf Residency|British Residency of the Persian Gulf]] (1822–1971; headquarters based in [[Bushehr|Bushire]], [[Iran|Persia]])
** {{flag|Bahrain|1932}} (1880–1971; protected state){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=50}}
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Kuwait 1940-1961.png}} [[Sheikhdom of Kuwait]] (1899–1961; protected state){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=50}}
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Qatar (1936-1949).svg}} [[Qatar]], protected state (1916–1971)
** {{flag|Trucial States}} (1892–1971; precursor state of the modern [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]], protected states){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=50}}
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Abu Dhabi.svg}} [[Emirate of Abu Dhabi|Abu Dhabi]] (1820–1971)
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Ajman.svg}} [[Emirate of Ajman|Ajman]] (1820–1971)
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Dubai.svg}} [[Emirate of Dubai|Dubai]] (1835–1971)
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Fujairah (1952–1972).svg}} [[Emirate of Fujairah|Fujairah]] (1952–1971)
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Sharjah.svg}} [[Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah|Ras Al Khaimah]] (1820–1971)
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Sharjah.svg}} [[Emirate of Sharjah|Sharjah]] (1820–1971)
**** {{flagicon image|Flag of Sharjah.svg}} [[Kalba]] (1936–1951)
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Umm al-Qaiwain.svg}} [[Emirate of Umm al-Qaiwain|Umm al-Qaiwain]] (1820–1971)
** {{flag|Muscat and Oman}} (1892–1971; informal, protected state)<ref>{{cite web|author=Francis Carey Owtram|date=1999|title=Oman and the West: State Formation in Oman since 1920|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1556/1/U126805.pdf|access-date=31 October 2020|publisher=University of London}}</ref>{{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|pp=50–51}}
* {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Aden Protectorate]] (1872–1963; precursor state of [[South Yemen]]){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=51}}
** Eastern Protectorate States (mostly in Hadhramaut) (1963–1967; later the [[Protectorate of South Arabia]])
*** {{flagicon image|Kathiri flag.svg}} [[Kathiri]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of the Mahra Sultanate.svg}} [[Mahra Sultanate|Mahra]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Quaiti Hadramaut.svg}} [[Qu'aiti]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of the State of Upper Yafa.svg}} [[Upper Yafa]] (consisted of five Sheikhdoms: [[Al-Busi]], [[Al-Dhubi]], [[Hadrami Sheikhdom|Hadrami]], [[Maflahi]], and [[Mawsata]])
*** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Sheikhdom of al-Hawra|Hawra]]
*** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Sheikhdom of al-`Irqa|Irqa]]
** Western Protectorate States (1959 and 1962–1967; later the [[Federation of South Arabia]], including [[Colony of Aden|Aden Colony]])
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Wahidi Balhaf.svg|24px}} [[Wahidi Balhaf|Wahidi Sultanates]] (these included: [[Wahidi Balhaf|Balhaf]], [[Wahidi Azzan|Azzan]], [[Wahidi Bir Ali|Bir Ali]], and [[Wahidi Haban|Habban]])
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Beihan.svg}} [[Emirate of Beihan|Beihan]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Dhala.svg}} [[Emirate of Dhala|Dhala]] and [[Qutaibi]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Fadhli.svg}} [[Fadhli Sultanate|Fadhli]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Lahej.svg}} [[Sultanate of Lahej|Lahej]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Lower Yafa.svg}} [[Lower Yafa]]
*** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Audhali]]
*** {{flagicon image|Flag of Haushabi - Yemen.png|size=24px}} [[Haushabi]]
*** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom]]
*** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Upper Aulaqi Sultanate]]
*** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Lower Aulaqi Sultanate|Lower Aulaqi]]
*** {{flagicon image|علم_مشيخة_العلوي.png|size=24px}} [[Alawi (sheikhdom)|Alawi]]
*** {{flagicon image|علم_مشيخة_العقربي.png|size=24px}} [[Aqrabi]]
*** {{flagicon image|علم_جمهورية_دثينة.png|size=24px}} [[Dathina]]
*** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Shaib]]
* {{flag|Emirate of Afghanistan|1906}} (1879–1919; protected state){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=50}}
* {{flag|Afghanistan|}} (1919–1947, 1948, 1950, 1956)

===Africa===
[[File:1960 6d Bechuanaland Protectorate stamp.jpg|thumb|1960 stamp of [[Bechuanaland Protectorate]] with the portraits of Queens [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]] and [[Elizabeth II]]]]

* {{flag|British Somaliland|}} (1884–1990){{sfnp|Onley, The Raj Reconsidered|2009|p=51}}
* {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Bechuanaland Protectorate]] (1885–1966)
* {{flag|Barotseland|}} Protectorate (1889–1980)
* {{flagicon|Nyasaland|variant=}} [[Nyasaland Protectorate]] (1893–1964) 
** [[File:Flag of British Central Africa Protectorate.svg|24x24px]] [[British Central Africa Protectorate]] (1889–1907)
* {{flag|Sultanate of Zanzibar|}} (1890–1964)
* [[Wituland|Sultanate of Wituland (1890–1964)]]
* [[File:Flag of The Gambia (1889–1965).svg|24px]] [[Gambia Colony and Protectorate]]* (1894–1971)
* [[File:Flag of the Uganda Protectorate.svg|24px]] [[Uganda Protectorate]] (1894–1963)
* [[File:Flag of Kenya (1895–1921).svg|24px]] [[East Africa Protectorate]] (1895–1920)
* [[File:Flag of Sierra Leone 1916-1961.gif|24px]] [[Sierra Leone Protectorate]]* (1896–1961)
* {{flagicon|Nigeria|colonial}} [[Colonial Nigeria|Nigeria]]* (1914–1964)
* [[File:Flag of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate (1900–1914).svg|24x24px]] [[Northern Nigeria Protectorate]] (1900–1914)
* {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Eswatini#British rule over Swaziland (1906–1968)|Swaziland]] (1903–1968)
* [[File:Flag of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate (1900–1914).svg|24x24px]] [[Southern Nigeria Protectorate]] (1900–1914)
* {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (British protectorate)]] (1901–1957)/(1957–1960)
* {{flagicon|EGY|variant=1882}} [[Sultanate of Egypt]] (1914–1922)
* [[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|24x24px]] [[Kenya Colony|Kenya Protectorate]]* (1920–1963'1964)
* {{flag|Kingdom of Egypt|1922}} (1922–1936)
* {{flag|Northern Rhodesia|}} (1924–1964'1965'1980) 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>protectorates which existed alongside a colony of the same name

====De facto====
* {{flagicon|EGY|variant=1882}} [[History of Egypt under the British#Veiled Protectorate (1882–1913)|Khediviate of Egypt]] (1882–1913)

===Oceania===
* {{flag|Territory of Papua|}} (1884–1888)
* {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Tokelau]] (1877–1916)
* [[File:Flag of Rarotonga 1888-1893.svg|24x24px]] [[Kingdom of Rarotonga|Cook Islands]] (1888–1893)
* {{flag|Gilbert and Ellice Islands|}} (1892–1916)
* [[File:Flag of the Solomon Islands (1906–1947).svg|24x24px]] [[British Solomon Islands]] (1893–1978)
* {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Niue]] (1900–1901)
* {{flag|Tonga|}} (1900–1970)

===Southeast Asia===
* {{flagicon|North Borneo|variant=}} [[British North Borneo]] (1888–1946)
* {{flag|Brunei|1906}} (1888–1984)
* {{flag|Raj of Sarawak|}} (1888–1946)
* {{flagicon|Malaya|variant=}} [[Federation of Malaya]] (1948–1963)
** {{flag|Federated Malay States|}} (1895–1963)
*** {{flag|Negeri Sembilan|}} (1888–1895)
**** [[File:Flag of Sungei Ujong.svg|24x24px]] [[Sungai Ujong]] (1874–1888)
**** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Jelebu]] (1886–1895)
*** {{flag|Pahang|}} (1888–1895)
*** {{flag|Perak|}} (1874–1895)
*** {{flag|Selangor|}} (1874–1895)
** {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Unfederated Malay States]] (1904/09–1946)
*** {{flag|Johor|}} (1914–1946)
**** {{flag|Johor|1855}} [[Muar District|Muar]] (1897–1909)
*** {{flag|Kedah|}} (1909–1946)
**** {{flag|Kedah|18th century}} [[Kulim]] (1894–1909)
*** {{flag|Kelantan|}} (1909–1946)
*** {{flag|Perlis|}} (1909–1946)
*** {{flag|Terengganu|}} (1909–1946)

==China's protectorates==
{{Further|Protectorate (Duhu Fu)}}
* [[Han dynasty]]:
** [[Protectorate of the Western Regions]]
* [[Tang dynasty]]:
** [[Protectorate General to Pacify the West]]
** [[Protectorate General to Pacify the North]]
** [[Protectorate General to Pacify the East]]
* {{flagicon image|Purpoted Military Flag of the Yuan Dynasty (2).png}} [[Yuan dynasty]]:
** {{flagicon image|Royal flag of Goryeo (Bong-gi).svg}} [[Goryeo]] (1270–1356)<ref>"A History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present, by Michael J. Seth", p112</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag of China (1889–1912).svg}} [[Qing dynasty]]:
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Tibet (1916-1951).svg}} [[Tibet under Qing rule|Tibet]]<ref>{{citation |last=Goldstein |first=Melvyn C. |title=Tibet, China and the United States |publisher=The Atlantic Council |date=April 1995 |url=https://case.edu/affil/tibet/documents/ReflectionsontheTibetQuestion1995.pdf |via=Case Western Reserve University |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Norbu |first=Dawa |title=China's Tibet Policy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGqyIgOlUCIC&pg=PA78 |year=2001 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-79793-4 |page=78}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Lin |first=Hsaio-ting |title=Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=osn1WrRCelcC&pg=PA8 |date=2011 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0-7748-5988-2 |page=8}}</ref>{{efn|Some scholars regard the relationship as one of [[Priest-patron]] rather than a protectorate.<ref>{{citation |first=Robert D. |last=Sloane |title=The Changing Face of Recognition in International Law: A Case Study of Tibet |journal=Emory International Law Review |volume=16 |number=1 |date=Spring 2002 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Print?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/emint16&id=113 |via=Hein Online |at=note 93, p. 135: "This ["priest-patron"] relationship reemerged during China's prolonged domination by the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty (1611–1911)."}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Karan |first=P. P. |chapter=Suppression of Tibetan Religious Heritage |editor=S. D. Brunn |title=The Changing World Religion Map |publisher=Spriger Science |year=2015 |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_23 |page=462|isbn=978-94-017-9375-9 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Sinha |first=Nirmal C. |title=Historical Status of Tibet |journal=Bulletin of Tibetology |volume=1 |number=1 |date=May 1964 |url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_01_01_04.pdf |page=27}}</ref>}}

==Dutch Empire's protectorates==
Various sultanates in the [[Dutch East Indies]] (present day Indonesia):<ref>{{cite web |title=Indonesian traditional polities |url=https://rulers.org/indotrad.html |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=rulers.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Indonesian Traditional States part 1 |url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Indonesia_princely_states1.html |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=www.worldstatesmen.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Indonesian Traditional States Part 2 |url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Indonesia_princely_states2.html |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=www.worldstatesmen.org}}</ref>

===[[Sumatra]]===
* Tarumon Kingdom (1830–1946)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Sultanate of Langkat.svg}} [[Sultanate of Langkat|Langkat Sultanate]] (26 October 1869 – December 1945)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Deli.svg}} [[Sultanate of Deli|Deli Sultanate]] (22 August 1862 – December 1945)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Asahan.svg}} [[Asahan Sultanate]] (27 September 1865 – December 1945)
* Bila (1864–1946)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Kota Pinang.png}} Tasik (Kota Pinang) (1865 – December 1945)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura.svg}} [[Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura|Siak Sultanate]] (1 February 1858 – 1946)
* Sungai Taras (Kampong Raja) (1864–1916)
* Panei (1864–1946)
* {{flagicon image|Royal Malay Banner (Yellow).svg}} [[Sultanate of Serdang]] (1865 – December 1945)
* Indragiri Sultanate (1838 – September 1945)
* {{flagicon image|Sultanate of Jambi Flag.png}} [[Jambi Sultanate]] (1833–1899)
* [[Kuala]] (1886–1946)
* {{flagicon image|Bendera Kesultanan Pelalawan.png}} [[Pelalawan Regency|Pelalawan]] (1859 – November 1945)
* [[Siantar]] (1904–1946)
* Tanah Jawa (1904–1946)

===[[Riau Archipelago]]===
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Riau-Lingga Sultanate.svg}} [[Riau-Lingga Sultanate|Lingga-Riau]] (1819–1911)

===[[Java]]===
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Banten.svg}} [[Banten Sultanate|Banten]] (1682–1811)
* {{flagicon image|COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Katoenen banier met Arabische kalligrafie TMnr 5663-1.svg}} [[Cirebon]] (1684–1819)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Wirabraja - Gula Kelapa.svg}} [[Yogyakarta Sultanate|Yogjakarta Sultanate]] (13 February 1755 – 1942)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Mataram.svg}} [[Mataram Sultanate]] (later [[Surakarta Sunanate]]) (26 February 1677 – 19 August 1945)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Mangkunegaran.svg}} [[Mangkunegaran|Principality of Mangkunegara]] (24 February 1757 – 1946)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Pakualaman.svg}} [[Pakualaman|Duchy of Pakualaman]] (22 June 1812 – 1942)
* [[Semarang]] (1682–1809)

===[[Bali]]===
* {{flagicon image|Klungkung flag.svg}} [[Klungkung Regency|Klungkung]] (1843–1908)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Repubblica Romana (1798).svg}}  [[Badung Regency|Badung]] (1843–1906)
* [[Bangli Regency|Bangli]] (1843–1908)
* [[Buleleng Regency|Buleleng]] (1841–1872 and 1890–1893)
* [[Gianyar Regency|Gianyar]] (1843–1908)
* [[Jembrana Regency|Jembrana]] (1849–1882)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Kingdom of Karangasem.svg}} [[Karangasem Regency|Karang Asem]] (1843–1908)
* [[Tabanan Regency|Tabanan]] (1843–1906)

===[[Lombok]]===
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Lombok.svg}} [[Lombok]] (1843–1894)
* {{flagicon image|Bendera Kesultanan Sumbawa.png}} [[Sumbawa people|Sumbawa]] (1908–c. 1948)
* {{flagicon image|Bendera Kesultanan Bima.png}} [[Bima]] (8 December 1669 – 1949)
* [[Dompu]] (1905–1942)

===[[Flores]] and Solor===
* [[Kingdom of Larantuka|Larantuka]] (1860–1904)
* Tanah Kuna Lima (1917–1924)
* Ndona (1917–1924)
* [[Sikka Regency|Sikka]] (1879–c. 1947)

===[[Kalimantan|Borneo]]===
* {{flagicon image|Banjar Sultanate Flag.svg}} [[Sultanate of Banjar]] (1826–1860)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Pontianak Sultanate.svg}} [[Pontianak Sultanate]] (16 August 1819 – 1942)
* {{flagicon image|Bendera sambas.png}} [[Sultanate of Sambas|Sambas Sultanate]] (1819–1949)
* Kubu (4 June 1823 – 1949)
* [[Landak Regency|Landak]] (1819–c. 1949)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Kingdom of Mempawah.svg}} [[Mempawah Kingdom]] (1819–1942)
* [[Sanggau Regency|Sanggau Kingdom]] (182?–1949)
* [[Sekadau Regency|Sekadau]] (182?–c. 1949)
* Simpang (1822–c. 1949)
* [[Sintang Regency|Sintang]] (1822–1949)
* [[Sukadana]] (1828–c.1949)
* Kota Waringin Sultanate (1824–1949)
* [[Kutai|Kutai Kertanegara Sultanate]] (8 August 1825 – 1949)
* Gunung Tabur (1844–c.1945)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Bulungan Sultanate.jpg}} [[Sultanate of Bulungan|Bulungan Sultanate]] (1844–c.1949)
* Simbaliung (1844–c. 1949)
* Kubu (1823–1949)
* Tayan (1823–c. 1949)

===[[Sulawesi|Celebes]]===
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Gowa.svg}} [[Sultanate of Gowa|Gowa Sultanate]] (1669–1906; 1936–1949)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Bone.png}} [[Bone state|Bone Sultanate]] (1669–1905)
* [[Bolaang Mongondow Regency|Bolaang Mongonduw]] (1825–c. 1949)
* Laiwui (1858–c. 1949)
* {{flagicon image|Macangnge Flag of Luwu.jpg}} [[Luwu]] (1861–c. 1949)
* Soppeng (1860–c. 1949)
* Butung (1824–c. 1949)
* Siau (1680–c. 1949)
* [[Banggai Islands Regency|Banggai]] (1907–c. 1949)
* Tallo (1668–1780)
* Wajo (1860–c. 1949)
* Tabukan (1677–c. 1949)

====[[Ajatappareng|Ajattappareng]] Confederacy (1905–c. 1949)====
* Malusetasi 
* Rapang 
* Swaito (union of Sawito and Alita, 1908)
* [[Sidenreng Rappang Regency|Sidenreng]]
* Supa

====Mabbatupappeng Confederacy (1906–c. 1949)====
* [[Barru]]
* Soppengriaja (union of Balusu, Kiru, Kamiri, 1906)
* [[Tanette]]

====Mandar Confederacy (1906–c. 1949)====
* Balangnipa 
* Binuang 
* Cenrana 
* [[Majene Regency|Majene]] 
* [[Mamuju Regency|Mamuju]] 
* Pambauang
* Tapalang

====Massenrempulu Confederacy (1905–c. 1949)====
* Allah
* Batulapa
* Bontobatu
* [[Enrekang Regency|Enrekang]] 
* Kasa
* [[Maiwa, Indonesia|Maiwa]]
* Malua

===[[Maluku Islands|Moluccas]]===
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Ternate Sultanate.png}}  [[Sultanate of Ternate|Ternate Sultanate]] (12 October 1676 – 1949)
* {{flagicon image|Bendera Sultan Bacan.svg}} [[Sultanate of Bacan|Bacan Sultanate]] (1667–1949)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Tidore.png}}[[Sultanate of Tidore|Tidore]] (1657–c.1949)

===[[West Timor]] and Alor===
* Amanatun (1749–c. 1949)
* Amanuban (1749–c. 1949)
* Amarasi (1749–c. 1949)
* Amfoan (1683–c. 1949)
* Beboki (1756–c. 1949)
* Belu (1756–c.1949)
* Insana (1756–c.1949)
* Sonbai Besar (1756–1906)
* Sonbai Kecil (1659–1917)
* Roti (Korbafo before 1928) (c. 1750–c.1949)
* TaEbenu (1688–1917)

===[[New Guinea]]===
*  {{flagicon image|Morning Star flag.svg}} [[Netherlands New Guinea|Dutch New Guinea]]:
** {{flagicon image|Kerajaan Kaimana Papua.gif}} [[Kingdom of Kaimana|Kaimana Sultanate]] (1828-1949)

==France's protectorates and protected states==
===Africa===
"Protection" was the formal legal structure under which [[French colonial empire|French colonial forces]] expanded in Africa between the 1830s and 1900. Almost every pre-existing state that was later part of [[French West Africa]] was placed under protectorate status at some point, although [[direct rule]] gradually replaced protectorate agreements. Formal ruling structures, or fictive recreations of them, were largely retained—as with the low-level authority figures in the French [[Cercle (French colonial)|Cercles]]—with leaders appointed and removed by French officials.<ref>See the classic account on this in Robert Delavignette. ''Freedom and Authority in French West Africa''. London: Oxford University Press, (1950). The more recent standard studies on French expansion include:<br />Robert Aldrich. Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion. Palgrave MacMillan (1996) {{ISBN|0-312-16000-3}}.<br />Alice L. Conklin. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa 1895–1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press (1998), {{ISBN|978-0-8047-2999-4}}.<br />Patrick Manning. Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880–1995. Cambridge University Press (1998) {{ISBN|0-521-64255-8}}.<br />Jean Suret-Canale. Afrique Noire: l'Ere Coloniale (Editions Sociales, Paris, 1971); Eng. translation, French Colonialism in Tropical Africa, 1900 1945. (New York, 1971).</ref>

* [[Benin]] traditional states
** Independent of {{flagicon image|Royal banner of Béhanzin of Dahomey.svg}} [[Danhome]], under French protectorate, from 1889
** [[Porto-Novo]] a French protectorate, 23 February 1863 – 2 January 1865. [[Cotonou]] a French Protectorate, 19 May 1868. [[Porto-Novo]] French protectorate, 14 April 1882.
* [[Central African Republic]] traditional states:
** French protectorate over [[Dar al-Kuti]] (1912 Sultanate suppressed by the French), 12 December 1897
** French protectorate over the Sultanate of [[Bangassou]], 1894
* [[Burkina Faso]] was from 20 February 1895 a French protectorate named [[French Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] (Haute-Volta)
* [[Chad]]: [[Baghirmi]] state 20 September 1897 a French protectorate
* [[Côte d'Ivoire]]: 10 January 1889 French protectorate of Ivory Coast
* [[Guinea]]: 5 August 1849 French protectorate over coastal region; (Riviéres du Sud).
* [[Niger]], [[Sultanate of Damagaram]] ([[Zinder]]), 30 July 1899 under French protectorate over the native rulers, titled [[Sarkin]] Damagaram or Sultan
* [[Senegal]]: 4 February 1850 First of several French protectorate treaties with local rulers
* [[Comoros]]: 21 April 1886 French protectorate ([[Anjouan]]) until 25 July 1912 when annexed.
* Present [[Djibouti]] was originally, from 24 June 1884, the Territory of [[Obock]] and Protectorate of [[Tadjoura]] (Territoires Français d'Obock, Tadjoura, Dankils et Somalis), a French protectorate recognized by Britain on 9 February 1888, renamed on 20 May 1896 as [[French Somaliland]] (Côte Française des Somalis).
* [[Mauritania]]: 12 May 1903 [[Colonial Mauritania|French protectorate]]; within Mauritania several traditional states:
** [[Adrar (region)|Adrar]] emirate from 9 January 1909 French protectorate (before Spanish)
** The Taganit confederation's emirate (founded by Idaw `Ish dynasty), from 1905 under French protectorate.
** [[Brakna]] confederation's emirate
** [[Emirate of Trarza]]: 15 December 1902 placed under French protectorate status.
* {{flagicon image|Merchant flag of French Morocco.svg}} [[French protectorate in Morocco|Morocco]] – most of the sultanate was under [[French protectorate of Morocco|French protectorate]] (30 March 1912 – 7 April 1956) although, in theory, it remained a sovereign state under the [[Treaty of Fez]];<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrTsNTzcY7EC&pg=PA51|title=International Law: Achievements and Prospects|first=Mohammed|last=Bedjaoui|date=1 January 1991|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=9231027166|via=Google Books}}</ref> this{{which|date=August 2019}} fact was confirmed by the [[International Court of Justice]] in 1952.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esfISSxc13cC&pg=PA453|title=Repertory of Decisions of the International Court of Justice (1947–1992)|first=Giuliana Ziccardi|last=Capaldo|date=1 January 1995|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=0792329937|via=Google Books}}</ref>
** The northern part of [[Morocco]] was under [[Spanish protectorate of Morocco|Spanish protectorate]] in the same period.
* Traditional [[Madagascar]] States
** {{flagicon image|Flag of the Merina Kingdom.svg}} [[Kingdom of Imerina]] under French protectorate, 6 August 1896. [[French Madagascar]] colony, 28 February 1897.
* {{flagicon|French protectorate of Tunisia}} [[Tunisia]] (12 May 1881 – 20 March 1956): became a [[French protectorate of Tunisia|French protectorate]] by treaty

===Americas===
* {{flagicon|Second Mexican Empire}} [[Second Mexican Empire]] (1863–1867), established by Emperor [[Napoleon III]] during the [[Second French intervention in Mexico]] and ruled by the Austrian-born, French puppet monarch [[Maximilian I of Mexico|Maximilian I]]

===Asia===
[[File:1 Sapèque - Protectorate of Tonkin (1905) 02.jpg|thumb|1 Sapèque – Protectorate of Tonkin (1905)]]

* [[French Indochina]] until 1953/54:
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Colonial Annam.svg}} [[Annam (French protectorate)|Annam]] and [[Tonkin (French protectorate)|Tonkin]] 6 June 1884
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Cambodia under French protection.svg}} [[French protectorate of Cambodia|Cambodia]] 11 August 1863
** {{flagicon image|Flag of French Laos.svg}} [[French protectorate of Laos|Laos]] 3 October 1893
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Central Vietnam (1885-1890).svg}} [[Vietnam]] 6 June 1884

===Europe===
* {{flagicon|North Rhine-Westphalia}} [[Rhenish Republic]] (1923–1924)
* {{flagicon|Saar Protectorate}} [[Saar Protectorate]] (1946–1956), not colonial or amical, but a former part of Germany that would by referendum return to it, in fact a re-edition of a former [[Saar (League of Nations)|League of Nations mandate]]. Most French protectorates were colonial.

===Oceania===
* {{flagicon|French Polynesia}} [[French Polynesia]], mainly [[Society Islands|the Society Islands]] (several others were immediately annexed).<ref>C. W. Newbury. Aspects of French Policy in the Pacific, 1853–1906. The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Feb., 1958), pp. 45–56</ref> All eventually were annexed by 1889.
** {{flagicon image|Flag of the Tahiti Protectorate 1842-1843.svg}} [[Otaheiti]] (native king styled Ari`i rahi) becomes a French protectorate known as Tahiti, 1842–1880
** {{flagicon image|Drapeau de Raiatea (polynésie Française 1880-1897).png}} [[Raiatea]] and [[Tahaa]] (after temporary annexation by Otaheiti; (title Ari`i) a French protectorate, 1880)
** {{flagicon image|Flag of the Kingdom of Mangareva 1832-1843.svg}} [[Mangareva]] (one of the [[Gambier Islands]]; ruler title `Akariki) a French protectorate, 16 February 1844 (unratified) and 30 November 1871<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Gonschor|first=Lorenz Rudolf|title=Law as a Tool of Oppression and Liberation: Institutional Histories and Perspectives on Political Independence in Hawaiʻi, Tahiti Nui/French Polynesia and Rapa Nui|location=Honolulu|publisher=University of Hawaii at Manoa|date=August 2008|hdl=10125/20375|pages=56–59|type=Thesis }}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Wallis and Futuna.svg}} [[Wallis and Futuna]]:
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Uvea.svg}} [[Wallis (island)|Wallis]] declared to be a French protectorate by [[List of kings of Uvea|King]] of [[Uvea (Wallis and Futuna)|Uvea]] and Captain Mallet, 4 November 1842. Officially in a treaty becomes a French protectorate, 5 April 1887.
** {{flagicon image|Flag of Sigave.svg}} [[Sigave]] and {{Flagicon image|Flag_of_Alo.svg}} [[Alo (Wallis and Futuna)|Alo]] on the islands of [[Futuna (Wallis and Futuna)|Futuna]] and [[Alofi Island|Alofi]] signed a treaty establishing a French protectorate on 16 February 1888.

==Germany's protectorates and protected states==
{{See also|List of former German colonies}}
[[File:5000 Kronen BM1944.jpg|thumb|200px|5000 ''{{lang|de|[[Bohemian and Moravian koruna|kronen]]}}'' – [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] (1939–1945)]]

The [[German Empire]] used the word ''{{lang|de|Schutzgebiet}}'', literally protectorate, for all of its colonial possessions until they were lost during [[World War I]], regardless of the actual level of government control. Cases involving indirect rule included:
* {{flagicon|German New Guinea}} [[German New Guinea]] (1884–1920), now part of [[Papua New Guinea]]
* {{flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}} [[German South West Africa]] (1884–1920), present-day [[Namibia]]
* {{flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}} [[Togoland]] (1884–1914), now part of [[Ghana]] and [[Togo]]
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Bougainville.svg}} [[North Solomon Islands]] (1885–1920), now part of [[Papua New Guinea]] and the [[Solomon Islands]]
* {{flagicon image|Flagge Witu 1890 laut Voeltzkow.jpg}} [[Wituland]] (1885–1890), now part of [[Kenya]]
* {{flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}} [[Ruanda-Urundi]] (1894–1920)
* {{flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}} [[German Samoa]] (1900–1920), present-day [[Samoa]]
* {{flagicon image|Flagge der Ralik-Inseln.svg}} [[Marshall Islands]]
* {{flagicon|German New Guinea}} [[Nauru]], various officials posted with the Head Chiefs
* {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Gwandu|Gando]] Emirate (1895–1897)<ref name="Gründer-2004">{{Cite book|last=Gründer|first=Horst|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKfe8UOC6cAC|title=Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien|date=2004|publisher=Schöningh|isbn=978-3-8252-1332-9|language=de}}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|No flag.svg|size=24px}} [[Gourma Province|Gulmu]] (1895–1897)<ref name="Gründer-2004" />

Before and during [[World War II]], [[Nazi Germany]] designated the rump of occupied [[Czechoslovakia]] and [[Denmark]] as protectorates:
* {{flagicon|Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia}} [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] (1939–1945), however it was also considered a partially annexed territory of Germany
* {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Denmark in World War II|Denmark]] (1940–1943)

==India's protectorates==
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Bhutan.svg}} [[Kingdom of Bhutan|Bhutan]] (1947–1971).
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Sikkim (1914-1962).svg}} [[Kingdom of Sikkim]] (1950–1975), later [[1975 Sikkimese monarchy referendum|acceded]] to India as [[Sikkim|State of Sikkim]].{{sfnp|Hoffmann, Protectorates|1987|pp=336–339}}

==Italy's protectorates and protected states==
* {{flagicon image|Al-1918.svg|size=24px}} [[Italian protectorate over Albania|The Albanian Republic]] (1917–1920) and the {{flagicon image|Flag of Albania (1939–1943).svg}} [[Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943)|Albanian Kingdom]] (1939–1943)
* {{flagicon|Monaco}} [[Monaco]] under amical Protectorate of the [[Kingdom of Sardinia]] 20 November 1815 to 1860.
* {{flagicon image|Ethiopian Pennants.svg}} [[Ethiopia]] : 2 May 1889 [[Treaty of Wuchale]], in the [[Italian language]] version, stated that Ethiopia was to become an Italian protectorate, while the Ethiopian [[Amharic language]] version merely stated that the Emperor could, if he so chose, go through Italy to conduct foreign affairs. When the differences in the versions came to light, [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Emperor]] [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelik II]] abrogated first the article in question (XVII), and later the whole treaty. The event culminated in the [[First Italo-Ethiopian War]], in which Ethiopia was victorious and defended her sovereignty in 1896.
* {{flagicon image|Coat of arms of Italian Libya (1940–1943).svg}} [[Italian Libya|Libya]]: on 15 October 1912 Italian protectorate declared over [[Cirenaica]] (Cyrenaica) until 17 May 1919.
* {{flagicon image|Banaadir calan.gif}} [[Banaadir|Benadir Coast]] in Somalia: 3 August 1889  Italian protectorate (in the northeast; unoccupied until May 1893), until 16 March 1905 when it changed to {{Flagicon image|Italian_Somaliland_COA.svg}} [[Italian Somaliland]].
** {{flagicon image|Majeerteen sultanate flag.jpg}} [[Majerteen#The Majeerteen Sultanates|Majeerteen Sultanate]] since 7 April 1889 under Italian protectorate (renewed 7 April 1895), then in 1927 incorporated into the Italian colony.
** {{flagicon image|Majeerteen sultanate flag.jpg}} [[Sultanate of Hobyo]] since December 1888 under Italian protectorate (renewed 11 April 1895), then in October 1925 incorporated into the Italian colony (known as ''Obbia'').

==Japan's protectorates==
* {{flagicon|Korea}} [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905|Korean Empire]] (1905–1910)
* {{flagicon|Manchukuo}} [[Manchukuo]] (1932–1945)
* {{flagicon|Mengjiang}} [[Mengjiang]] (1939–1945)

==Poland's protectorates==
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Feodosia.svg|size=24px}} [[Feodosia#Kaffa (Genoese colony)|Kaffa]] (1462–1475)

==Portugal's protectorates==
* [[Cabinda (province)|Cabinda (Portuguese Congo)]] (1885–1974), Portugal first claimed sovereignty over Cabinda in the February 1885 [[Treaty of Simulambuco]], which gave Cabinda the status of a protectorate of the [[Portuguese Crown]] under the request of "the princes and governors of Cabinda".
* [[Kingdom of Kongo]] (1857–1914)
* [[Gaza Empire]] (1824–1895), now part of [[Mozambique]]
* [[Angoche Sultanate]] (1903–1910)
* [[Kingdom of Larantuka]] (1515–1859)

==Russia's and the Soviet Union's protectorates and protected states==
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Cossack Hetmanat.svg}} [[Cossack Hetmanate]] (1654–1764)
* [[File:Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti.svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti]] (1783–1801)
* {{flagicon image|Banner of the Kingdom of Imereti.svg}} [[Kingdom of Imereti]] (1804–1810)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Revolutionary Serbia.svg}} [[Revolutionary Serbia]] (1807–1812)
* {{flagicon|Principality of Serbia}} [[Principality of Serbia]] (1826–1856), now part of [[Serbia]]
* {{flagicon image|Civil Ensign of the Principality of Moldavia (1834-1861).svg}} [[Moldavia|Principality of Moldova]] (1829–1856), now part of [[Moldova]], [[Romania]] and [[Ukraine]]
* {{flagicon image|Flagge von Walachischen 1858.svg}} [[Wallachia|Principality of Wallachia]] (1829–1856)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Emirate of Bukhara.svg}} [[Emirate of Bukhara]] (1873–1920)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Khanate of Khiva.svg}} [[Khanate of Khiva]] (1873–1920)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Uriankhai (1918-1921).svg}} [[Uryankhay Krai]] (1914)
* {{flagicon image|Kokbayraq flag.svg}} [[Second East Turkestan Republic]] (1944–1949), now part of [[Xinjiang]], [[China]]

===''De facto''===
{{See also|Russian-occupied territories}}
Some sources mention the following territories as ''[[de facto]]'' Russian protectorates:

* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_South_Ossetia.svg}} [[South Ossetia]] (2008–present)<ref name=oboze>{{cite journal |last=Gerrits |first=Andre W. M. |last2=Bader |first2=Max |title=Russian patronage over Abkhazia and South Ossetia: implications for conflict resolution |journal=East European Politics |date=2 July 2016 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=297–313 |doi=10.1080/21599165.2016.1166104 |s2cid=156061334 |issn=2159-9165|doi-access=free |hdl=1887/73992 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Transnistria_(state).svg}} [[Transnistria]] (1992–present)<ref>{{cite web |last=Pieńkowski |first=Jakub |title=Renewal of Negotiations on Resolving the Transnistria Conflict |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/gray-literature-detail?id=598329 |date=2016 |website=[[Central and Eastern European Online Library]] (CEEOL) |language=en |access-date=3 July 2022}}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Abkhazia.svg}} [[Abkhazia]] (1994–present)<ref name=oboze/>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Donetsk_People's_Republic.svg}} [[Donetsk People's Republic]] (2015–2022)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Greene |first1=Sam |title=Putin's 'Passportization' Move Aimed At Keeping the Donbass Conflict on Moscow's Terms |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/26/putins-passportization-move-aimed-at-keeping-the-donbass-conflict-on-moscows-terms-a65405 |access-date=24 October 2020 |work=The Moscow Times |date=26 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Luhansk_People's_Republic.svg}} [[Luhansk People's Republic]] (2015–2022)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Robinson |first1=Paul |title=Russia's role in the war in Donbass, and the threat to European security |journal=European Politics and Society |date=1 October 2016 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=506–521 |doi=10.1080/23745118.2016.1154229 |s2cid=155529950 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23745118.2016.1154229 |issn=2374-5118|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Artsakh.svg}} [[Republic of Artsakh]] (2020–2023)<ref>{{cite news |title=Putin's Karabakh victory sparks alarm in Ukraine |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-karabakh-victory-sparks-alarm-in-ukraine/ |access-date=25 April 2021 |work=Atlantic Council |date=12 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Goble |first1=Paul |title=Nagorno-Karabakh Now A Russian Protectorate – OpEd |url=https://www.eurasiareview.com/25112020-nagorno-karabakh-now-a-russian-protectorate-oped/ |access-date=21 September 2021 |work=Eurasia Review |date=25 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Socor |first1=Vladimir |title=Russia's 'Peacekeeping' Operation in Karabakh: Foundation of a Russian Protectorate (Part Two) |url=https://jamestown.org/program/russias-peacekeeping-operation-in-karabakh-foundation-of-a-russian-protectorate-part-two/ |access-date=21 September 2021 |work=Jamestown}}</ref>

==Spain's protectorates==
* {{flagicon image|Merchant flag of Spanish Morocco.svg}} [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco|Spanish Morocco]] protectorate from 27 November 1912 until 2 April 1958 (Northern zone until 7 April 1956, Southern zone ([[Cape Juby]]) until 2 April 1958).
* {{flagicon image|Late_19th_Century_Flag_of_Sulu.svg|size=24px}} [[Sultanate of Sulu]] (1851–1899)
==Turkey's and the Ottoman Empire's protectorates and protected states==

* {{flagicon|Aceh Sultanate}} [[Aceh Sultanate]] (1569–1903)
* {{flagicon|Maldives}} [[Maldives]] (1560–1590)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of the Cossack Hetmanat.svg}} [[Cossack Hetmanate]] (1669–1685)

===''De facto''===
* {{flagicon|Northern Cyprus}} [[Northern Cyprus]] (1983–present)
==United Nations' protectorates==
{{main|United Nations protectorate}}
==United States' protectorates and protected states==
After becoming independent nations in 1902 and 1903 respectively, [[Cuba]] and [[Panama]] became protectorates of the [[United States]]. In 1903, Cuba and the U.S. signed the [[Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1903)|Cuban–American Treaty of Relations]], which affirmed the provisions of the [[Platt Amendment]], including that the U.S. had the right to intervene in Cuba to preserve its independence, among other reasons (the Platt Amendment had also been integrated into the [[1901 Constitution of Cuba|1901 constitution of Cuba]]). Later that year, Panama and the U.S. signed the [[Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty]], which established the [[Panama Canal Zone]] and gave the U.S. the right to intervene in the cities of [[Panama City|Panama]] and [[Colón, Panama|Colón]] (and the adjacent territories and harbors) for the maintenance of public order. The [[Constitution of Panama#Earlier constitutions|1904 constitution of Panama]], in Article 136, also gave the U.S. the right to intervene in any part of Panama "to reestablish public peace and constitutional order." [[Haiti]] later also became a protectorate after the ratification of the [[Haitian–American Convention]] (which gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Haiti for a period of ten years, which was later expanded to twenty years through an additional agreement in 1917) on September 16, 1915.

The U.S. also attempted to establish protectorates over the [[Dominican Republic]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwi/108649.htm|title=Dominican Republic, 1916-1924|website=U.S. Department of State Archive|date=20 August 2008 }}</ref> and [[Nicaragua]] through the [[Bryan–Chamorro Treaty]].
* {{flagicon|Cuba}} [[Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)|Cuba]] (1902–1934)<ref name="Cuba-Platt">{{Cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/platt-amendment|title=Platt Amendment (1903)|date=September 15, 2021|website=National Archives}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gould |first1=Lewis L. |title=William McKinley: Foreign Affairs |date=4 October 2016 |url=https://millercenter.org/president/mckinley/foreign-affairs |publisher=Miller Center}}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Panama.svg|size=24px}} [[Panama]] (1903–1941)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Haiti (1820–1849, 1859–1964).svg}} [[Republic of Haiti (1859–1957)|Haiti]] (1915–1936)

===''De facto''===
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Negros_Republic.svg|size=24px}} [[Republic of Negros]] (1899–1901)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aguilar |first1=Filomeno V. |title=The Republic of Negros |journal=Philippine Studies |date=2000 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=26–52 |jstor=42634352 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42634352 |issn=0031-7837}}</ref>
* [[Republic of Zamboanga]] (1899–1903)
* {{flagicon image|Late_19th_Century_Flag_of_Sulu.svg|size=24px}} [[Sultanate of Sulu]] (1899–1915)

===Contemporary usage by the United States===
Some agencies of the [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]], such as the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]], refer to the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]] and [[insular area]]s of the United States—such as [[American Samoa]] and the [[United States Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]]—as protectorates.<ref>{{cite news|date=12 March 2020|title=Notice of Finding of Failure To Submit State Plans for the Municipal Solid Waste Landfills Emission Guidelines|work=Environmental Protection Agency|url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/12/2020-05079/notice-of-finding-of-failure-to-submit-state-plans-for-the-municipal-solid-waste-landfills-emission}}</ref> However, the agency responsible for the administration of those areas, the [[Office of Insular Affairs]] within the [[United States Department of the Interior]], uses only the term "insular area" rather than protectorate.

* {{flagicon|District of Columbia}} [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]]
* {{flagicon|American Samoa}} [[American Samoa]]
* {{flagicon|Guam}} [[Guam]]
* {{flagicon|Northern Mariana Islands}} [[Northern Mariana Islands]]
* {{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[Puerto Rico]]
* {{flagicon|U.S. Virgin Islands}} [[United States Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]]

==Joint protectorates==
{{Further|Condominium (international law)}}

* {{flagicon|Republic of Ragusa}} [[Republic of Ragusa]] (1684–1798), a joint [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Austrian]]–[[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkish]] protectorate
* The {{flagicon image|Flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands.svg}} [[United States of the Ionian Islands]] and the {{flagicon image|Flag of the Septinsular Republic.svg}} [[Septinsular Republic]] were federal republics of seven formerly Venetian (see [[Provveditore]]) Ionian Islands ([[Corfu]], [[Cephalonia]], [[Zante]], [[Santa Maura]], [[Ithaca (island)|Ithaca]], [[Cerigo]], and [[Paxos (island)|Paxos]]), officially under joint protectorate of the allied Christian powers, {{Lang|la|de facto}} a British amical protectorate from 1815 to 1864.
* {{flagicon|UK|variant=}} {{flagicon|EGY|variant=1922}} [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] (1899–1956)
* {{flagicon|Independent State of Croatia}} [[Independent State of Croatia]] (1941–1943)
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Germany (1946-1949).svg}} [[Allied-occupied Germany]] (1945–1949)
* {{flagicon|Austria|variant=1945}} [[Allied-occupied Austria]] (1945–1955)

==See also==
* [[British Protected Person]]
* [[Client state]]
* [[European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
* [[EUFOR Althea]]
* [[High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
* [[League of Nations mandate]]
* [[Peace Implementation Council]]
* [[Protector (title)|Protector]] (titles for [[Head of State|Heads of State]] and other individual persons)
* [[Protectorate (imperial China)]]
* [[Timeline of national independence]]
* [[Tribute]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Bibliography==
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